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Excerpt from Wycliffe and the Huguenots: Or Sketches of the Rise of the Reformation in England and of the Early History of Protestantism in France

As no references to authorities are given in the following pages, it seems due to the reader to indicate the sources from which the information that they contain has been derived.

For the course of Lectures on the Life and Times of Wycliffe, the Biographies of the Reformer by Lewis, Vaughan, Le Bas, and Bohringer have been consulted. Among these, a special value attaches to the two Biographies of Dr. Vaughan. It is to them we are indebted for our knowledge of Wycliffe's gradual advance to that position toward the Papacy which he finally assumed; for the first full development of his character and services as a religious Reformer; and for the fresh interest that, during the last half century, has been taken in his life and labours; a debt too tardily and grudgingly acknowledged by English, but which has been readily and fully acknowledged by continental writers.

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